£700
Nicholas Monsarrat: 'The Cruel Sea', London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1951, 1st edition, signed by the author and dated 1951 to FFEP, original blue cloth lettered in silver to spine (generally VGC), dust wrapper (slightly worn with some small closed tears and v. small part losses to extremities, slightly rubbed along spine edges, else generally VGC, 12/6 price intact). One of the authors best known sea stories, a novel following the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. Based on the author's own experience of serving in corvettes and frigates in the North Atlantic in WWII, successfully adapted into a film of the same name in 1953 directed by Charles Frend and starring Jack Hawkins as Commander Ericson and Donald Sinden as Lockhart. Rare signed
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